Category: career
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Exploring DNA 2
After a bit of a hiatus over the summer, Gillian and I have restarted our DNA project and spent the morning working at Leicester Print Workshop making prints using found objects. We will be exhibiting work in progress at the TedX Leicester event on 26th October.
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Winner of the Fine Art Quilt Masters 2016
I’m astonished and delighted to have won the Fine Art Quilt Masters competition at the Festival of Quilts today for my piece Criminal Quilts: Hanging. Huge thanks to my friend, supporter and mentor Liz Cooper for encouraging me to push on with this work, the judges and the sponsors and of course to Staffordshire Records…
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Anniversaries and Centenaries
Today marks eleven years since I officially became a self-employed artist. Last year I missed my 10th anniversary because of other things going on in my life and this year it feels a bit flat because of the state of my country and the Somme centenary today. Centenaries and anniversaries are important in my work and…
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Exploring DNA
Following on from our studio session exploring stains a couple of weeks ago, Gillian & I have started work on a new research and development project, inspired DNA using found objects as our source material. Each object will be changed, developed and combined with other altered objects to create a sequence of interactions and combinations. …
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Fine Art Quilt Masters Competition at Festival of Quilts
I’m delighted to announce that my piece Criminal Quilt has been selected for the Fine Art Quilt Masters competition at the Festival of Quilts 11th-14th August. You can see all the shortlisted pieces here, but they have no names so you can play guess the artist…. “Fine Art Quilt Masters is a juried competition that is open…
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Narrative Threads Opening 14th November
My solo exhibition, Narrative Threads, opens on Saturday 14th November The National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford, Lincolnshire. This exhibition is the culmination of a year-long residency at NCCD, funded by Arts Council England. Please join me to celebrate the opening of the exhibition on Saturday 2-4pm with cheese and wine! It includes lots of…
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On Patience
People often tell me how patient I am to hand stitch my work. I often counter that I am only patient with sewing, not with anything else (although that’s not really true*). We can all be patient doing something we love. It doesn’t require patience to get to the end of a good book as you…
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Narrative Threads Artist in Residence
March was a time for reflection, thinking and planning. I’m working, slowly, on new pieces. I’m revisiting older work and pulling ideas together. Ideas for new work are sloshing around and beginning to settle. A few days holiday at the end of the month gave me vital thinking time, sitting on the front of a…
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Narrative Threads residency day 1
A few days ago I finally had my first Narrative Threads residency day at The National Centre for Craft & Design after January’s went awry with snow and illness. It is such a rare treat to spend a whole day focussed on just one project and a day just making my own work is still…
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Textiles Open exhibition at Solihull
I’m exhibiting two pieces in the Pattern & Place Textiles Open exhibition in Solihull Gallery, including Monumental Folly which they have used on the advert and my new piece Star Quilt, straight from the Ornamentum exhibition. The exhibition opens on Thurs 26th Feb with an evening preview from 6.15pm and continues until 28th March.
Ruth Singer 